Songs as Outlines

Qwantz came up with a brain-eating way to think about songs. Process Girl is going to love this.

totally just invented the best format for music EVER

Here is the Ghostbusters theme song in list format.

* Things I ain't afraid of:
    o no ghost

* Strange things in the neighbourhood (partial list):
    o seeing things running through head
    o invisible man sleeping in bed

* Things that make me feel good:
    o bustin'

* Who you gonna call:
    o Ghostbusters
    o I can't hear you
    o Louder

It's a reaction to pseudo-organizizing on par with "The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation" and and Edward Tufte's classic essay, "The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint." The huge response has included over 1500 sometimes-inspired comments on the original post, silly Java programs,

public class BeerSong{
public static void main(String[] args){
int beerNum=99;
String word="bottles";

while (beerNum >0) { ...

and a new Live Journal community which is continuing the outline fun:

Word up

Target audience:

All the boys and girls

Pretty ladies around the world

Brothers

Sisters

Your momma, too

Sucka DJs who think [they're] fly

Materials:

Music (we can use it)

What to do:

Wave your hands in the air
      • like you don't care ...

I got infected by the meme, too. Sam Cooke's "Wonderful World:"

Don't know
* much [about]
    • history
    • biology
    • a science book
    • the French I took
    • geography
    • trigonometry
    • algebra
* what it's for
    • a slide rule

Do know
* I love you
* one and one is two

Claims explicitly rejected
* to be an "A" student

Maybe
* I can win your love for me
    • by being an "A" student baby

Conditions under which a wonderful world this would be
* you love me too
* this one could be with you

(via Boing Boing)